The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment

What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [What one day gives, another takes away from us.]

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.